>> maybe she will start eating. melissa: this could wipe the topless hotos. was there are topless photos on the internet and never go away. that's what i'm told. >> i know mine have never gone away. melissa: to you when the price. thanks to both of you. that's all the "money" we have today. you will see you back here tomorrow. "the willis report" is coming up next. ♪ gerri: tonight broken promises. the government has let small business owners feeling forgotten. one is here with her story. and your shopping questions answered. consumer reports' annual money in nuys list. welcome to "the willis report." ♪

gerri: hello, everybody. i'm gerri willis. a bold counter offer to president obama on the fiscal clef. the new plan contains 800 billion in new taxes, half of what the president was looking for. more importantly, the gop plan keep tax rates the way they are now. we know that is a deal maker for the tie-breaker for the presidents. joining me now, the man some democrats blame for the fiscal cliff impasse, grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. and the many and as a finger to about fixing it, michael reagan, founder of the reagan group. i want to start with the republicans plan that they put on the table. they have been accused of doing nothing and all. they come up with their own plan which includes 800 billion in revenue from closing loopholes and eliminating deductions and then 1 billion in spending cuts. it is being rejected from the

get go by democrats. grover, what do you say? >> i think the republicans had a very good plan called lorraine budget. they all voted for it in the house. it saves $6 trillion over the same decade, and they did not raise taxes and all. i really think of the president is not interested in compromising, and not sure it is wise with the republicans to keep moving in his direction. i suppose it gives you five minutes on the nightly news to say you are being reasonable, but the president keeps saying he just wants massive tax increases, no spending cuts. he wants to increase spending as part of this deal. the president is driving the country over the fiscal cliff. he thinks he can convince the establishment press to blame other people for his decisions. gerri: you know, to his point, the new york times had an interesting headline today, which just kind of points out where the left is coming from on this. they say obama's into giving in

pushing the gop to come to the table. i thought this was almost comical? how did you respond? >> it is kind of, ." pushing the gop to come to the table, you know, where he wants the table to be set, not where the democrats -- i mean, the republicans of the table to be set. the republicans need to start defining the issue, not defending the issue. if they are not allowed to define the issue then just let barack obama try this over the cliff. barack obama, as originally the grand bargain one and 800 billion in tax cuts. then he won the election. now he wants to increase it to over one half trillion. he has double down on all of these things. if you go back historically in this whole program, you might remember roy reagan, $3 in spending cuts for every dollar in new taxes. we get the taxes but ronald

reagan never get the spending cuts. george bush lost an election in '92. he raised taxes on the democrats promised him $2 in spending cuts for every dollar in new taxes. george bush is still waiting for those $2 in spending cuts. now the president is saying to live in give you two and a half to one. it's time the democrats and the president stepped up and cut spending. gerri: to that point. i want you to respond to what the white house had to say in response to the republicans offer and then go to michael's point about what you will actually get later. here is what dan pfeiffer said. it promises to lower rates for the wealthy and stick the middle-claas with the bill. we could do it pinocchio test. is that true or false? >> completely false. they want to keep all the race the same. now lower than for anybody.

and maintaining the status quo on rates. the deductions are actually targeted for upper-income people. the democrats, the white house, some left wing groups that on behalf of the white house imagined how they would design the republican plan and then they attack it. dishonest during the campaign, and the president is still running a political campaign. he's been all of last year campaigning for president instead of being president. he is still campaigning. at some point he has to sit down and decide to be president before he leads. gerri: i want you to respond to something treasury secretary tim geithner had to say about these negotiations. whatever it is rare in the middle of. >> you have for them for the first time in two decades now acknowledging that they're willing to have revenues grew up as part of the plan. that is a good first up, but they have to tell us what they're willing to do on rates and revenues. gerri: even geithner admitted

the republicans have made a step in their direction, but what do you make of his comment? and we said earlier we should just jump over the cliff. >> jump over the cliff. well, jumping over the cliff. were going to go over the cliff anyway. if indeed we buy into barack obama's plan on raising taxes. remember, that is only going to make washington and the united states live for about eight and a half days. this is what i mean by the republicans are not define the issue. they are allowing the president to define the issue that is out there. geithner is saying that the republicans are willing to talk about revenues going out by closing loopholes. they've been talking about that for a long time. they have never not talked about that issue. gerri: are we any closer tonight to getting a deal that we were three weeks ago? >> no. and this is a challenge. if you keep compromising toward the white house you discover the white house becomes a receding

horizon. they keep raising the size of the tax increase, the spending cuts become smaller and more unlikely to actually ever happen . and i think their is a very real challenge here because the problem is overspending. the problem is overspeeding. every day that the press is allowed of the white house has allowed to focus on taxes is a day that we are not focused on the overspending. gerri: michael, yap. >> for example here, the president of the united states was to take over the debt ceiling and have the debt ceiling go up unless the congress has a two-thirds vote to not allow him to have the debt ceiling bill well. that is a major issue that the people out in america are not even aware of. why isn't the speaker and the republicans bring that up from about? see how many democrats vote to have the president be in control of the debt ceiling.

gerri: is it a good idea to give the white house the checkbook? >> it's a very bad idea. what is amazing is that the white house of spending all this money to monterrey's taxes, is also asking for no limit on the national debt. they were planning on raising the debt by 8 trillion over the next decade. there really want to tell us that is not enough and they have to have no limit? this is very bizarre. they have really shown there hand in an odd way. the mast is dropped on where they seem to want to take this. but michael was out in greece. he might tell us what happens when you allow tax increases to chase after spending and you don't have any restraint in all, however works out. gerri: california's just approved a $6 billion tax hike. what can you tell us about our future? >> it is retroactive. active january 1st of 2 dozen 12. it does not start next year.

it already started. increasing our sales tax. the people run in this whole operation moved to texas. if you want to visit california anymore go to dallas, houston, fort worth because that is where people are going. people learn to live small, and this is what people understand. my taxes go up maybe al only give up petty and many every other week. maybe i will get my hair cut every two weeks but every three. this is what goes on. and if you raise my taxes i'm going to cut back somewhere. who gets hurt is the little guy on the totem pole. gerri: rahway ago. thank you for coming on tonight. thank you. all right. yet another big corporations rushing to avoid a huge tax bill on the fiscal cliff. oracle said it would pay three of next year's dividends this

year. taxes on dividends are set to go from 15% to as much as 43% next year unless congress changes the law. the big winner tonight oracle ceo as the company's largest shareholder you will get nearly $200 million in today's deal and will avoid about 60 million in taxes. he did not vote for today's exhilarated payout. he sure does profit from it. a lot more still to come, including a small business owner who says she feels helpless after superstores and the and the government is doing nothing to help her. the proof is in the pudding. albert done a new report showing a tax hikes on the bridge backfired in britain. we will politicians here techno? stay with us.

♪ gerri: do you remember willie sutton? he was the depression era bank robber who held up about 100 banks over 40 years. when asked why he was famously reported as answering, because that is where the money is. i thought of slick willie today as i was listening to the reporting of the fiscal cliff. the president's point man saying of the weekend shows, higher taxes must be a part of any resolution with republicans, presumably the white house teams thinks the wealthy are where the money is. i have some news for him. that strategy may just not work. consider britain. after the government announced a plan to levy a 50 percent income tax on people earning a million pounds or more big number of people in that category shrunk. check out these numbers.

the number of millionaire tax filers in 2009. by the time, the tomb of the law went into affect it fell. the government had been its @%pes on raising two and a half billion pounds in new revenue but the law of unintended consequences to cold. suddenly and inexplicably there were 60 percent fewer millionairess. british million has contributed 13 and a half billion pounds or 9 percent of all the government and come before the hike. fast forward. millionaire taxes raised six and a half billion pounds or less. for a half percent after the hike. that is not the comparison there were looking for. what happened? 10 billion as of the country, well to people moving come into 2009 to get the benefit of a lower rate. did they all get stung by a weak economy? probably all of that or maybe some of it. but this story is a warning

signal for politicians in the u.s. if you believe you can finance the entitlement nation on the backs of the wealthy, well, think again. better of creating a fair tax system in which everybody has some skin in the game rather than trying to find where the money is. by the way, do you know how much money slick willie get away with in 40 years of robbing banks? just $2 million. that's what i think. now we want to know what you think. coming in e-mail. gerri@foxbusiness.com. >> coming up on "the willis report," outrage in staten island as a bomb was broken promises and government bureaucracy has stifled the recovery. as a source of lost everything they work for an disgusting than big time. we get to the bottom of it. and then nfl nightmare, murder-suicide tragedy exposing huge problems within one of the biggest industries in the country. football legend ricky watters is

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gerri: been more than a month since hurricane sandy ravaged the east coast. new york governor andrew cuomo seeking federal aid for the victims of superstar and sandy, new york and new jersey requesting $79 billion from the federal government in order to rebuild. but there are still many folks

picking up the pieces, trying to rebuild there lives and businesses. my next guest who lost her entire store in the storm. she says the government has done nothing to help work and finds herself in a circle of red tape. if you for coming in the show. appreciated. >> thanks you for having me in letting me tell not only my story, but the story of many small businesses better in the same predicament as i am. gerri: you had a store that had been around since 2004. >> i have been in my store for about nine years. my heart and soul. fresh and homemade. a pillar of the community. gerri: very involved. >> very involved. we donate bagels a project hospitality. our bagels are in the hospital. involved in many of the school activities in different organizations. gerri: tell me how they figure store. >> in left me with nothing.

on monday at a business and was prepared on tuesday opened. when i got there i have nothing left. ransacks the stored up to los. gerri: was the standing water? >> it took me until wednesday to be able to get in because they could not even get the water table to go down until wednesday afternoon. 9 feet of water and 12 feet of water outside. one of the neighborhood cars floated past mining. that's how high it went. gerri: past year on in. >> past bionic. gerri: was it obvious that it was a total loss? what did you did? >> the windows were blown out. before we attempted to get into the store. the back door was barricaded. i got to my knees and cried. such a heartbreaking. we redecorated. everything was brand new. we put our hearts and our soul into everything in that store. to see it tossed around like

that and demolished was -- words cannot even describe the sadness. gerri: who did you reach up to? >> everyone. at first it took a while to sink in and still does not feel real. you think there will be helped. of course there will be helped. i pay my taxes. i do everything i am supposed to do. u.s. and someone will come and save me. and nothing. gerri: the mac. >> i did contact them. the only help homes, and not taking anything away from homes. fema does not help small businesses. gerri: small business administration. >> nothing in place except for loans tell businesses recover. it. gerri: what is wrong with that? >> most already have loans. the economy has not been doing well. we cannot do this on our own. gerri: you couldn't really -- you couldn't pay off another

loan. >> i don't need another loan. is done as part business decision for me to open up my door's not even knowing it my community is lowwstanding with another low my head. it's not a small business decision that is appropriate to think. gerri: you are not only a small business operator. you have a three year-old. >> of course. mother of sylvia, 3a-year-old. gerri: we're seeing a picture. >> she is called the bagel baby. the customers come and invest about her more than meet. gerri: a family operation. >> of course. mom and my dad and my fiance. we are in there all the time. gerri: there are businesses all over this region who are in the same situation who are facing the same problem. >> oh, of course. this is something widespread. i have spoken to many businesses in the communities that i am friends with our we have reached

out to show support for each other. we are all in the same boat. none of us have gotten any help. and if you go in to rebuild it has to be 100 percent on their own because he can last a closed. i have no income coming in. gerri: you don't even qualify for unemployment. >> i don't. that is a misconception. as the officer by corporation i am not eligible for an implied. gerri: 15 employees. >> there waiting for me to we open. they're my family. there are heartbroken. they count on me. they're doing everything they can to help until way for us to reopen. gerri: optimistic you that you can get back up and going. >> i love my store my community. we will be back. we have another every single day. we will be up and running sent. gerri: you convinced me.

thank you for coming on. >> i appreciate it. gerri: i appreciate your coming on in telling the story. if you would like to donate our reach of directly, she would like to hear from you. she set up a fund-raising website where she went to. for contact information, also on there. we come back the results of the studies showing waste and fraud, and use in our nation's stock. a shock to the sports world. a football player commits suicide after killing his girlfriend. how much responsibilities as the nfl have? his take.

gerri: the tragic murder-suicide by jovan belcher sending shockwaves through the national football league. the kansas city chiefs linebacker spot and killed his girlfriend saturday

before driving to his team's practice facility killing himself leaving behind his three month old doctor. shocked at the news his university of maine football coach said i am pressed to find a man who had more impact on his teammates and football family. he is truly one. great stories in the program's history. so what happened? here to shed light on nfl, former running back, super bowl champion, ricky waters. he is one of hundreds of players suing the league over head injuries and fox sports.com writer peter shrage. ricky, i will start with you. >> thanks, gerry. gerri: talk to us, ricky about the stresses on players and what it makes you do. it is just hard to imagine something like this happening. >> yeah. terrible, a terrible tragedy but yes there's a lot of pressure on players and there's a lot of stress. there is the pressure to perform at your best and to

be the best every time you go out there on the field but also there's pressure to keep your job. there is always somebody behind you waiting to take your job. look at alex smith. look at kapernic kchl, the situation at 49ers. look at vick and foles and mccoy, running backs at philadelphia. those guys lost their jobs to a concussion. like you get a concussion you think you will be okay, you can come back in or at least stay out of and get your wits about you and but you come back and you have a job and there's a guy who steps right in and does a great job and you might see not field again at least for that time. gerri: a friend's e-mail describes how belcher was acting. he was suffering from short-term memory loss. a combination of alcohol, concussions and prescription drugs put him in a state he would not otherwise be in. peter, is this sound common

to you? >> as far as the results of that can go either way. players get hurt, players get injured and the nfl for years used to celebrate this stuff. you used to see on tv commercials and all the punishing hits and hard action. you don't see as much, come on, man, don't see giants hits and heart knocks stuff. that is trying to do something with the image. more and more stuff is in the news and more and more stuff in the headlines it is a bad look for the nfl and there are billions of dollars at stake. gerri: ricky, you had experience of playing, having a concussion and prescribed drugs exactly the wrong thing for you to be taking. >> yes, definitely. even before i heard what happened i suspected that it could have something to do with pain medications and head trauma. i know with me, when i was in seattle i broke my ankle and i had five screws put in, a metal plate placed in

there they put me on oxycontin and oxycodone. i just wasn't myself. my wife said, you know, i wasn't myself. that i was disoriented. some of the same things, mood swings. even like hallucinating and saying things that definitely wasn't me. she would, we had a brand new son at the time. she would take care of him and keep him away from me. they would leave for hours at a time and come back and i wouldn't even know they left. i wouldn't even know what was going on. i don't even remember. gerri: players are acting in ways that i think nobody who knows them, you know, everybody would be surprised by. belcher, a friend claimed belcher was abusing alcohol and prescription meds at the time this happened. here's a guy who graduated a degree in child development and family relations from the university of maine. you heard the quote from his coach saying he was a great guy. we were all proud of him. what is the nfl, is the nfl doing something wrong here?

are they encourage couraginging behavior? >> game is getting faster and only more violent. ricky can speak with this. when a player goes down with concussion there is no independent doctor comes on the field like a boxing match, this player can't go. he is out of this one. a doctor paid by the team. so it is in the team's best interest when michael vick goes down with injury he is good to go. he doesn't want to tell the coach, franchise player. vick wants to play and make his money and be the quarterback of the eagles. the coach wants him to play. in doctor's case who is the one to say i don't think this is the best decision? he has a incentive as well. gerri: peter was mentioning how the big hits are not happening and not as bad as it used to be and yet even today we had hearings on the saints where they were paying people to do really hard hits that get people out, not only out of the game but maybe out of the season. seems to me this problem is not solved not by a longshot.

>> no, not at all. but at least they are trying to do some things but not by a longshot. it's a big problem. it's, i mean the nature of the sport is that it is a tough sport, there is no doubt about that but we need to be educated on it. we need to understand what these pain medications can -pdo to you. what these traumatic hits can do to you, you know. i have a friend, who was my full back in philadelphia and he has als now. he was one of the strongest guys, everything and now they have given him from eight years to five years to now, two years, just two years to live and i mean, just seeing him is a tough situation. he can't even comb his hair now. he can't even give himself a shave. he can't even put on his clothes in the morning. very serious. gerri: that is very serious and, just depressing. there is a story in the "new york times" today, ader all is the latest greatest

drug being used by football players. why? that was shocking to me. this is a drug for add. >> the adderall situation, ricky can speak to it as well, they say it gives you a upper and lift. in the film room and practice field a way to concentrate more to adderall. it is addictive drug and starting at high school level. you ask guidance counselors and many people are described for adderall and many people taking are not prescribed for adderall. it is getting up to the nfl. gerri: how are you doing and about your injuries and how you're going? are you feeling bit other or things working out better right now? >> with the help of many specialists and i'm, i lead like a very strict life now as far as that's concerned. i have a very strict regimen, rehab regimen. my diet, i've gotten that under control. gluten-free, things that the

doctors have told me can help my brain, number one but help me physically to kind of slow this down. but of course i'm still afraid. i'm afraid every day because i know that like kt, one day he was fine. the next day he had als. so, i know it can happen to anyone one of us. we've all had head trauma. we dealt playing in nfl. i played in the nfl for 11 years. a running back will get hit and even when camera is not on me and fake it to me and quarterback rolls out they still tackle me and hit me. play. if the quarterback is throwing that bomb be, i'm probably picking up one of the biters coming off the edge and going through the middle or linebacker, defensive end and full speed i have to face him up head first, bam, that is concussion every time i do it. now that i know what a concussion is, and symptoms of it i feel like every time i had to make a block like that, i had a slight

concussion. melissa:. gerri: unbelievable. thanks for coming on tonight, ricky and peter. >> thanks for having me. >> i hope we don't hear anymore about this kind of thing. >> definitely. gerri: thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. gerri: thank you. now we want to know what you think. here is our question tonight. should the nfl be doing more to protect players? log on to gerriwillis.com. vote on the right-hand side of the screen. i will share results at the end of tonight's show. santa is not the only one who is checking naughty and nice. i check withhconsumers reports that has its own list. government airports, many spend the week practically empty and taxpayers footing the bill. details next. ♪ .

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gerri: where's the government wasting your hard-earned taxpayer dollars this time? ghost airports. your taxpayer dollars subsidizing rural airports that little to know traffic. my next guest says these airports which are meant to bring new economic activity just end upbringing more debt. should the government be involved in the first place? joining me now, steven lang ga, from the manhattan institute. author of this, shakedown, the continuing conspiracy against the american taxpayer. what is going on? why is he government involved in developing airports? >> well, of course the government aproves this and runs the whole system, the federal government and essentially local governments, counties, the cities, they created

airports in conjunction with the faa. the thing is what is happening around the country what i call it the if you build it they will come fallacy. remember, that moving, right, that was a fantasy, not reality. people don't seem to understand it. around the country you have airports in growing regions like dallas-ft. worth and atlanta because the regions are growing and they are busy they're investing airports. gerri: a lot of money around there. a lot of development around there. >> yeah. what happens is in other places around the country and look at this, wow, they're spending money on the airport and their region is growing. if we spend money on our airport i guess our region will grow. no. you have all the examples. gerri: do a couple of them. let's start with mid-america st. louis. >> outside, mid-america is actually in aurora, illinois. meant to be a off loader to st. louis on the one hand and chicago on the other hand. the government and the

county facilities spent $300 million in the air report. -- airport. they subsidize three airlines to do business there all three gave up the business. don't have any flights. gerri: don't have any flights? >> no, except occasional charter flights. the, this is after 12 years. the county government has spent, invested something like $150 million after they built it in operating costs and losses. you know, just like throwing bad money, good money after bad money. gerri: talk about northwest airport in florida panhandle. >> my favorite. gerri: what haeched? >> the florida panhandle, local residents call it the redneck riviera. down there, a big development company said, if we build an airport down here --. gerri:st joe's. >> st. joes. people will come and develop the region. the government, saint joe's and local county authority

put 300 million into creating an airport. the airport opened just as the florida/national housing bust was hitting. complete, again, nothing has happened since then. st. joe's was taken over by dissident shareholders saying company was wasting money on this and other ventures. meanwhile you have the other airport basically doing very little business. gerri: radio silence. >> it is not generating a new economy down there. instead something subsidized by taxpayers. gerri: there is something called the essential air services program that costs $200 million annually. >> yeah. gerri: how well is that doing keeping rural airports alive? >> this is the other thing. when we had airline deregulation in 1978, the idea the government would spend some money, $7 million on 133 airports on rural airports. keep them going for 10 years with subsidies so they can get their own kind of footing. the idea we want to keep the rural communities in the air transportation system.

only was supposed to last 10 years. 30, 35 years later we're spending $200 million. we're still keeping these airports open. many of these airports have never been able to actually get on their own footing. in one airport, i'll give you an example, you have two or three people per flight. the rest of the flight is subsidized to the tune of $3500 per empty seat by the federal government. that is $200 million. gerri: my money and yours, mr. malanga. >> we can afford it of course because washington is in such good shape. gerri: that is ridiculous. steve thanks for bringing to us. i'm sorry, i'm reeling from that last fact. >> go to europe for that. gerri: exactly that is ridiculous. thanks so much for coming on. great to see you. >> good to see you. gerri: still to come, my two cents more. you may have heard it. "consumer reports" is making a list and checking it twice just like somebody else we know. find out who they think is naughty and who is nice. ♪ .

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gerri: how naughty is your favorite company? "consumer reports" says which ones are cold this christmas on the annual naughty and nice list

gerri: bank ever mechanic is throwing in the towel and giving up fight on fees. according to "the wall street journal" it is postponing fees for checking accounts. new fees will be delayed until late next year. the fees would have hit 10 million or so customers by end of the this year.

bank of america was testing new fees in a pilot program in georgia, massachusetts and arizona. they're charging between six and 25 per month on type of account and service. shelving plans for the fees the nation's second largest bank is involving reliving uproar over fees and in experience last year, a fight i was happy to lead. i'm going to show bank of merck just what i think of their fees. -- bank of america. i know you're mad too. bank of america ended up con ed seeing the war over the $5 monthly debt card charge. we hated hat. senior financial analysts at bank rate.com greg mcbride told "the willis report", service charges fill up a revenue hole temporarily but are not sustainable as a model for growth. i agree. i don't want to pay more for access to my own money but banks seem to be fighting a

losing battle, not to mention angering investors who want to see the banks rake in more revenue. shares for bank of america spent most of the day in the red. according to the journal, bank of america take as loss upwards of couple hundred dollars a year on 1/5 of customer checking accounts the ones with the smaller balances. low interest rates thanks to ben bernanke and friends make it harder for banks to make money. something has to give for the banks i understand that. they're in business. they need profits but i don't want to be paying for it, do you? didn't think so. meanwhile santa isn't the only one with a list. "consumer reports" put out their third annual naughty and nice list highlighting specific company policies and practices. which companies are getting coal in their stockings this year? with me, greg doherty, executive director at "consumer reports". >> hi, gerri. gerri: welcome to the show. always great to see you. we love your naughty and nice list. i followed it for a number of years. start with the naughty list. who is number one?

>> well the naughty list is meant not to talk about companies in general but to talk about specific policies of these companies so to be on the naughty list doesn't mean you're a bad company. means we're highlighting a policy. this year two airlines are on the naughty list. i don't think we haven't had a year where one airline is the on the naughty list. delta air lines is on there for huge difference between refundable and nonrefundable fares. one of our reporters attempted to buy a super saver non-refundable ticket. it was $248. was offered a refundable one $737. so 500 difference to insure that $248 airplane ticket. gerri: there is spirit too. these are guys we talk an awful lot about. what was their practice that you didn't like? >> all these extra airline fees, baggage fees and stuff drive consumers nuts. spirit has one where you carry on a bag and can't get it under the seat in front of you and want to you

president it in the overhead bin will charge up to $100 for that. gerri: that is a price of a ticket. talk about for over 21. i was surprised to see this. this is discount retailer. very popular with young women in our office. why don't you like it? >> we don't like one of their policies and that is, a policy some other retailers have as well, that is they have different return policies if you buy something online depending where you return it. if you take it into the store they will give awe credit or you can, you know, exchange it for something only if you mail it back to them do you get a cash refund. we think those return policies are needlessly confusing for consumers. gerri: similarly ticketmaster, you don't like their pricing policies for ticket delivery. tell me about that. >> ticketmaster was on the nice list this year but this year they're on the naughty list for a policy they charge you $2.50 an order to print out your own tickets on your printer at home. they will mail them to you --. gerri: what? that is ridiculous. >> they mail them to you for

free but can take up to 10 to 14 days. you can be pretty anxious waiting to see if you go to the concert or not. gerri: other one, bmw on here. everybody is surprised. they have no spare tire? >> right. a number of automakers are doing this now. if you open the trunk the car doesn't come to with a car anymore. they are equipped with run flat tires that can run with minor puncture or sometimes they give you a kit where you can sort of a repair a minor puncture itself. if you have a blow out or major tire problem you could be stranded by the side of the row waiting for a tow truck to many could. gerri: if i'm paying for bmw i want a full tire. nice list, home depot, honda, kohl's, pnc bank and nordstrom. kudos to those guys. they make the nice list. always great to see you. great list. good stuff. >> thank you, gerri. gerri: we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] at scottrade,

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gerri: as we discussed earlier, a kansas city chiefs linebacker shot and killed his girlfriend saturday before driving to the stadium where he committed suicide. some are speculating the mental issues he suffered from or a result of the game he layed. what do you think? should the nfl do more to %-we asked on gerriwillis.com. 46 percent said yes, 54 percent said no, wait. finally tonight, lawmakers are not that most a group of people, but they are darn close. a new gallup poll found a little over half of americans have a low opinion of congress honesty or ethics. the good news, that's better than two-thirds of americans about that last year. the number who have a high opinion of the governing body has climbed into double digits. actually one profession more distressed, and the art